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The Rother Class James Cable Makes Her Final Pass Along the Beach at Aldeburgh on the Day Her Mersey Class Successor Arrived
The Rother class James Cable makes her final pass along the beach at Aldeburgh on the day her Mersey class successor arrived. - View image in PDF
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Mary Ann
At 1 A.M. on the 18th March the Coastguard reported that a large Government cruiser was signalling to the shore for immediate assistance. The crew of the Life-boat were promptly assembled, and in a choppy sea the Life-boat John BurcJi was...
(Below) a Plank Is Carefully Positioned and Fastened In the Age-Old Way.
(below) a plank is carefully positioned and fastened in the age-old way.. - View image in PDF
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Mass capsize in the lough
PORTAFERRY/NEWCASTLE | 11 AUGUST
Portaferry and Newcastle RNLI crews were part of a multi-service response to a large-scale rescue on Strangford Lough, Co Down. Eighty-eight boats were taking part in a...
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Lifeboat Lottery
Lucky Lifeboat Lottery winners Mr and Mrs Fisher of Chester so enjoyed their prize holiday that they wrote to tell the Lifeboat magazine all about it The spring 2004 Lifeboat Lottery prize was a trip on the world's most celebrated train,...
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Mare Novum
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 10.58 on the morning of the 24th of March, 1960, Lloyd's agent at Great Yarmouth informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man aboard the Dutch tanker Mare Novum, which was...
Richmond Packet, of Middlesborough
Again, on the night of the 26th October, a vessel was seen apparently in a dangerous position near the Barber Sands, off Glister.
Some of the beachmen went off in one of their yawls, and found the vessel to be the brig...
What a race! Holidaymakers joined local well wishers on the harbour bridge to cheer two rafts in a race
What a race! Holidaymakers joined local well wishers on the harbour bridge to cheer two rafts in a race which took them the length of Lake Lathing, around the derelict trawler Yellowtail and back to the starting point at the bridge. Teams... - View image in PDF
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Guide of Dunkirk.
The Girl Guides of the Empire have given the Institution £5,000 to build a motor life-boat. This is part of £50,000 which they contributed among themselves in Empire Week for national causes. It will provide a life-boat which was...
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Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat T.G.B., who was lost with his crew on the night of 18th March, 1969, while on service (see page 594). He was awarded his first silver medal in 1959for saving 14 from the... - View image in PDF
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